How To Use Staring In A Sentence
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Iin this case it uses the atomic unit of digital life - a single screen of data on a Palm, a little brick of reality we spend so much time staring at all day long.
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There was a deal of shouting from Jamie's direction, and general hubbub, as a few people came out of the pothouse, staring.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
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I felt something akin to the tender hatred one can sense when staring hard at a photograph of oneself.
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She was leaning against the wall, staring out over the still snowy landscape.
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I open my eyes and there are her deep, cold, violet, malicious eyes, staring at me.
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He lays it down on the workbench and stands there, staring out the window.
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He looked in the fogged up mirror at the reflection staring back at him.
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I spotted Adrian later in the afternoon staring at the distant tree line with a look of pondering in his eyes.
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Everything else slipped from her mind and she ended up staring at whatever caught her eye.
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He was staring down at the diary on the floor, which had fallen open when it had landed.
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This opportunity is staring us in the face and we are all footering around.
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You pull out the pressure cuff, pump the bubble thing, staring at the gismo that resembles your caller ID.
Full Tilt Boogie
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When no decisive successes were scored in either 1779 or 1780, France seemed to be staring disaster in the face.
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And another home defeat left them staring the relegation abyss in the face.
The Sun
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Bunbury was staring in awful fascination at Windrush, who opened his mouth to wreck the entire con - hook, line and sinker.
THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
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He was staring at a tree that the rock had bored a hole through.
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Jarre stood some distance away from him, staring in awe at the coralite isle floating in the pearl-blue sky.
The Hand of Chaos
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There's mumbling and there's staring and now there's twitching.
Times, Sunday Times
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I lay alone in the darkened bedroom, staring into ashy, cool murkiness.
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Our fears seem less primeval when we notice that the island's warden, Adrian, is staring at the tide and looking concerned.
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A much longer pause ensued, and Rolloniss casually walked across to the edge of the cliff, staring at the vast, unobscured countryside.
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They stood side by side for a moment, staring into the torn undersides of the chair, at the cobwebs and the little balls of spider eggs.
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She was leaning with her back against the hotel wall which was papered over with a faded mural, her thumbs tucked in her gunbelt, staring at nothing and everything, including, it turned out, me.
In my New York City, the cops wink at you and mean it.
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But best of all was the pool: where most villas boast pocket-handkerchief paddling pools, here was a pool in which to do solitary laps before breakfast, while staring out over miles of burnt-umber fields.
Sleeping with the Finzi-Continis: Sicily's Madonie mountains
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It's where I am reminded that I no longer have to sit next to a goggle-eyed 4th grader with a milk mustache while opening my Gilligan's Island lunchbox and staring with disbelief at yet another soggy braunschweiger sandwich.
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One glance at those staring eyes was enough to confirm that this was a man burning with missionary zeal.
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-- But then they are not charged for seeing the lamps; there is no charge for walking round the walks; there is no charge for looking at the cosmoramic pictures; there is no charge for casting a glance at the orchestra; there is no charge for staring at the other people; there is no charge for bowing or talking to an acquaintance, if you meet one -- all these are gratis; and if you neither eat nor drink, there is no charge for witnessing those who do mangle the long-murdered honours of the coop, and gulp down the most renovating of liquors, be they hale or stout, vite vine, red port, or rack punch.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 321, July 5, 1828
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The door slammed, and Fiona shot up, staring at a glaring Mark.
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You know what I mean - the big stack, lying there, staring at you, their disarrayed spines accusing you ... make them stop!
Jilly Gagnon: Those Books You REALLY Mean to Get Around to Reading...No, REALLY
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Ghostly singing and piano riffs are heard from time to time; scenes end with Hedda downstage center staring at the audience, sometimes followed by her hideous cackle.
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Behind him hurried a younger, comelier man, carefully clad in motor costume, who bent above the girl with passionate solicitude and gazed into her staring eyes until they narrowed and dropped and her face flushed deeper and deeper crimson.
DARKWATER
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She rested her chin on her fist and leaned her elbow on her knee, staring into empty space and thinking.
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She gingerly pulled the rope of pearls out of the box, staring at them in disbelief, as if she expected them to disappear any moment.
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But instead he sat motionless, taking long drags of a cigarette and staring at a mural of a bunch of teenagers at a party.
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I sat there sullenly staring at the roast mutton and potatoes.
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She was still holding the book and just staring at it when a scratch sounded at the door.
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Still, it brightens the place up if you don't mind it staring at you.
Times, Sunday Times
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he caught her staring out the window
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A light wind swept over the shoreline, rippling Tilly's hair gently in the breeze as she sat cross legged on the ground, staring out over the sea.
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I am staring a three-and-a-bit months University vacation in the face.
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Mandrill Staring Into the Camera Bright red - and - blue facial markings identify this mandrill as a mature male.
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The former dictator, a palace-dwelling billionaire, was the picture of bedraggled abjectness: mouth forced open, eyes staring glassily.
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But Shaheed was staring at a maidan in which lady doctors were being bayoneted before they were raped, and raped again before they were shot.
G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers
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I slipped away from the port and went along the deck to the break of the poop, where I held on and stood staring through the gray and spray in the conjectural direction of our drift.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
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They all had the big glasses on looking like some kind of tootsie roll owl fan club and it was interesting to watch older men and woman staring at them and thinking "what's up with those freaks that looked like they just jumped out of an aerobics video from the 80s?
Steven Nereo: The Straight Nope: Big Glasses
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Staring into the mirror at her ruined hair, she promised: `I'll ga you for this.
I.O.U. - SOMEONE HAS TO PAY
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By late in the first half United were staring at a seven-goal deficit and almost certain defeat.
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He turned to see Umber staring back with his mouth cinched tight.
End of Time
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Staring down into it you could see the shiny bronze pennies and silver dimes lying at the bottom.
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Justin grinned, staring out into space, his hands still gripping tightly onto the handles of the controls.
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Again I was lost in a daze, staring at the boy who had caught my attention earlier.
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As though in a trance they stood, staring at that white mask with its black eyes and frame of sable hair, paralyzed by hesitation.
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It wasn't until this afternoon, with election primaries staring me in the face, that I got my act together to visit Rock the Vote, registering in mere minutes.
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She just stood there, staring at him with unblinking eyes.
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I like it," said Button-Bright, who was staring hard at the musicker, his little legs spread wide apart.
Love Letters
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I opened my eyes and found myself staring at a pair of legs in knee high boots, fishnet red stockings, and a red and white schoolgirl skirt.
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He realized he had been staring, and recovered himself as smoothly as he could.
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I love using this process when I'm feeling a little stumped staring at a big 12 X 12 page -- it's kind of like freewriting to remedy writer's block.
Progressive pages...
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In the near darkness Jonathan was faintly aware of hazel eyes staring up at him.
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There were clowns in the corner in rocking chairs staring at you.
Times, Sunday Times
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Staring after him, still seething with rage, I breathed heavily.
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Today I went over to my gramps ' place to have dinner with them, and this uncle was staring at me.
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The old school photograph shows a handsome, fresh-faced teenage boy staring awkwardly at the camera.
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A lot of the students there were coupled up and dancing close together, staring into each other's eyes or kissing.
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A passing secretary stopped short, clutching her steno pad to her chest, staring wide-eyed at him.
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Allen kept staring at Earl's sternum, bare; the young, healthy skin fogged with red chilblain under the clumsy coat.
ABSOLUTE ZERO
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She glanced over at Logan who was sitting on the bed staring out the window deep in thought.
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Scales is biting his lower lip and staring hard at the camera.
Times, Sunday Times
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A run through the historical record, staring with Tacitus on Nero's blaming the Christians for the Great Fire, then Pliny on his administrative problems in Bithynia, then a long section on Cyprian (who I think gets more coverage than any other non-emperor); then a period of relaxation, which however is abruptly reversed by Diocletian (though that period of persecution seems to be more effective in the East).
Gibbon Chapter XVI
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He was staring at the twin beds.
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And now Rusty was in " brainstorm mode," in the operations room, staring at the chart.
NIMITZ CLASS
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Her eyes were instantly riveted on one particular face staring out moonlike from between curtains of dark hair.
Unearthly Asylum
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Goblin craned his neck up to see if Spiderman was telling the truth, but within seconds he found himself staring at the ground.
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Micheal walked in a second later, now staring at my nearly naked body.
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Yet she seemed to enjoying the thought of his largely built figure looming over her with his raven coloured eyes staring into hers.
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She noticed that he was looking towards the stairs, so she turned her gaze there and was surprised to see Katz in her sleepwear, holding her teddy bear tightly in her arms while staring at them with wide eyes.
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I could spend hours just staring into the mirror, pulling daft faces.
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He nodded, staring out over the clear water to where the hydroplane was now visible, a dot on the horizon.
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Gail nodded and bit her lip again, turning her attention back to the game board and staring at the jumbled patterns of red and yellow marbles.
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Her eyes fell on a stranger, staring at her in a cool impertinent way.
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An excited little man with the staring eyes of a visionary, who harangued us for hours on end about the imminence of apocalypse.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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At dawn I often walk by the shores of Lake Managua, staring at the wild flowers that grow in the cracks of dead buildings: malinche, the flowers are called.
Once upon a life: Joseph O'Connor
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For a few minutes they lay side by side in companionable silence staring up at the shadows on the ceiling.
FALLEN WOMEN
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When A. came to take in her liquor, she found her tub empty, and from the cow's staggering and staring, so as to betray her intemperance, she easily divined the mode in which her 'browst' had disappeared.
Waverley — Volume 1
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I moved the weights to the front, staring straight ahead into the mirror, watching closely to make sure that my arms didn't dip or drop.
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Look at them staring at us!
Times, Sunday Times
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Near the middle and off to the side, staring up with an expression of friendliness, excitement, and, above all, hope.
Freefall
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An enormous cardboard cutout of a short, stubby penguin lay on the ground, the beady black eyes staring up at her dumbly.
MINUTES TO BURN
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An old man was staring at her so she stuck her tongue out at him.
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All at once, Rena feels both like turning around to run out the door, and staring at him in frozen admiration - like a person worshipping a piece of art.
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She stood on the cliff, staring out to sea.
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Like two gunslingers, the pair must now size each other up, staring intently through narrowed eyes, trigger fingers twitching, working out who will make the first move.
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I was going for "boombox" on that red one, but that was after staring at it for 10 minutes and getting a little dizzy.
Dastardly Dad Designs
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Then stood Regin staring on the earth a long while, and presently thereafter spake from heavy-mood: “Mine own brother hast thou slain, and scarce may I be called sackless of the deed.”
The Story of the Volsungs
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Kawa Kendi, a man in early middle age, powerful and lithe-limbed, sat as motionless as the King, his father, staring, as did all, with the fixed stare of the anagogic.
Witch-Doctors
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Her graceful neck rises higher than the trees, like a giraffe in slow motion, her liquid eyes staring curiously, then dismissively, at the gaping humans; she returns to her grazing as if these late-model mammals were no more worthy of note than their scruffy shrewlike ancestors, with whom she shared the Earth 130 million years ago.
Here Come The Dnasaurs
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His crest hung on the wooden wall, the black hawk with wings perched in a frightful pose staring at her with its piercing golden eyes.
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The home side were staring a fifth defeat in six games in the face and had effectively slipped into the bottom three.
The Sun
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Launched in March, Kepler finished its electronics check-out and turned to its principal mission this week, staring at roughly 100,000 nearby stars for tell-tale "blinks" caused by eclipsing planets.
Kepler's search for another Earth begins
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She found him sitting in the lounge, staring moodily off into space.
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The three sit silent for a moment, hands clasped in identical attitudes, staring at the table.
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Hamma sat beside me staring intently forward and indicating the direction that we should take with a flick of his finger.
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Instead, Cindy was stuck staring gloomily out the window as rain steadily beat against it.
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The souls of the children materialized before her, staring into her very heart, crying to be free!
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I dashed after her and caught up with her outside where she stood unabashed and unembarrassed staring around her.
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She pressed her back in against the wall behind a downspout and waited, staring out toward the main street.
Bubble in the Bathtub
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With a satisfied little churr, the baby collapsed on Leryn's feet, staring adoringly up at him.
And Other Tales Of Valdemar
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I looked up to find Trischen staring at me, his eyes tearing from the laughter he was futilely trying to keeping in.
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She toed off her shoes and lay down next to him, staring up at the constellation they had placed on his ceiling.
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When I went into his office, Arnie was red in the face and staring incredulously at the sheaf of papers I had given nim.
A CONVICTION OF GUILT
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He just sat in the dressing-room staring into space.
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An officer from his section stood outside his door, staring ahead sightlessly, opening his mouth to recite a message in a monotone.
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He looked up and found Alex staring at him, a strange, almost rueful grin on his face.
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She stopped, staring, as several score thoughts and fears, feelings and emotions kicked her in the tail, clenching her gut and sending a sluice of cold water down her spine.
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He was still staring impassively out over the choppy, angry waters of Blackwood Lake.
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Reading could also be staring down the barrel of financial ruin if they suffer another relegation.
The Sun
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We were really staring into the abyss.
Times, Sunday Times
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He did not pet it, or stroke it: he stood staring.
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In the inset picture he is menacingly pointing it towards the camera and staring down both barrels.
The Sun
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Joanne stood with her hands on the sink, staring out the window.
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Out of the corner of my eye, however, I can see two dark-suited men wearing shades leaning against a wall staring at me intently.
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We stood on a cliff at the southern tip of Deer Island, staring down at the rips, eddies, and whirlpools tearing through the water below.
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The boys and Herbert would have been content to sit with their shoulders hutched up, staring at their boots, going every quarter of an hour to the front-door to see if it were raining as hard there as it was out of the salon window, and Evelyn only wanted to be left in silence with her headache.
The Third Miss Symons
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And now Rusty was in " brainstorm mode," in the operations room, staring at the chart.
NIMITZ CLASS
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The slaves were staring up in awe as thousands of the glowing projectiles sailed past, and the ground struck with the constant shocks of the impacts.
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He saw the two implacable eyes of it staring and her finger whitening on the trigger.
DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
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After staring at them for ten minutes, he finally started to speak, pouring his heart out.
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I took a sip of my soda, staring at the plain white plastic lid, completely ignoring him.
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The companions wandered beneath the staring eye of the sun, following Big Zojja, as Little Zojja used her cockpit cage to pick up a telltale tendril of magic.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny
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It can't be often that visitors walk into army offices and stand staring at the tea urn.
IN FORKBEARD'S WAKE: Coasting Round Scandinavia
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While she worked, she kept looking at her wrist and staring at the blipping screen.
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The diner is a diner, no more and no less, retro-50s tube with aproned waitresses and meat loaf and pie and Val, leaning forward by the register, staring at the door.
Valentines, part the first
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He sat staring out the window with his elbows on the arm rests and his thumbs under his chin, slowly tapping his two index fingers together as he planned his next step.
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The few people in the street suddenly stopped went they saw us, either staring at me or urging their children quickly indoors.
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As Mattie Ross, the 14-year-old heroine, obsessively pursues her father's killer, she proves to be an almost unbelievably viable outdoorswoman, stoically fording a river on horseback, camping out nightly without complaint, bracing the elements, staring down death.
Avital Binshtock: An Environmentalist's Review of True Grit
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Jim held onto his father and kept staring mutely into the microphone.
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I simply sat there, butt on the ground, staring at the bronze, sun-streaked walls, as if it were the most intriguing activity on earth.
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A third man on the tracks, covered in soot and dirt and with all but his boxer shorts blown off by the blast, had been staring into space, he said.
7/7 inquest: Survivor breaks down as he recalls struggle to help Aldgate injured
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I wish I could say I felt the moist eyes of my family and friends staring out hopefully from the observation enclosure.
365 tomorrows » Duncan Shields : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
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Draco leaned his bare back carefully against the rough bark of the beech tree staring up at the moon and the brilliant twinkling stars.
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Bathed in the red glow of the darkroom safelight, Ian McDonald was staring hard at a ruined photograph.
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Snapping out of her trance, she stood up quickly and found herself staring at some stranger with spiked brownish hair and an extremely large puffy jacket.
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When I looked back, I saw he was standing there staring down at the doll, his face as hard and as still as a sculptured one.
WEB OF DREAMS
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The favorite pastime on this Hawaiian vacation was torching doobies and staring out at the horizon for hours on end.
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Generally he sat clasping one knee, staring directly in front of him, and puffing regularly on a "meerschaum" pipe he had earned by saving the tags of Spearhead tobacco.
Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life
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I'm eating a chocolate caramel bar and staring out at the quite determined sheets of white rain.
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He stood staring at the dead body, unable to comprehend.
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You could just see his staring eyes.
FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
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After a gruelling day of standing staring into space, she returns to her poky apartment to make drawings, which she occasionally sells through an art dealer.
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I found myself staring at her as if she were a phantom.
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Temporarily forgetting himself, Cannington was now leaning across the desk staring at Robert King.
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Six-hundred-and-fifty-six people staring him—or the image of them staring at him—made him want to flee.
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Well I'm glad that's the only reason you're staring at me like I'm mentally deranged.
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He was staring out over the water and thinking, which is not a good thing for a shelterless man with a family to do.
CORONATION DAY
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They've become a staring contest between half-blind fools.
A Bear Hunt in Riga
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But the sight of Benvenuto's evil lopsided countenance staring at her out of Tonino's arms left her with almost nothing to say.
THE MAGICIANS OF CAPRONA
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Father and son, hands enclasped, staring at each other for the first time ever.
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He sat back in his chair and folded his arms, staring at his wife while his dinner began its steady decline into congealment.
Winter Bloom
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staring eyes
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Staring with ‘Rolls and Waves of Ignorance’, Herren produces a song based on a series of orchestral swells, a smooth saxophone, and a gently plucked bass.
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She turned to face the front and looked right into a pair of brown eyes staring back at her.
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Croft was sprawled, half in the armchair, half on the floor, staring at the dying embers of the fire.
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I was absolutely sure at that moment I would find myself staring at a big white Game Over.
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All I could see was that face, smeared in jellylike feces, the blank eyes sightlessly staring into the abyss above.
The Curse of the Wendigo
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Brad noted that Rimov was staring at the intensity slide visible on the breechblock of his sheathed weapon.
The Universe — or Nothing
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Tom was staring at Simon and had a moment of epiphany.
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It's as if your formative years have passed and you've turned into a surly teenager, sulking in your fizzing sack, staring at your yeasty sock, explaining your version of the world to anyone who will listen.
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The solution was staring me right in the face all along.
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I looked up to see Meredith, her expression grim, staring down at me.
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Staring at a computer screen all day wasn't the best line of work but it paid pretty well.
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They didn't want people staring at them as they sat on the lawn, so they put up high walls.
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Amy sat unmoving in her seat, staring out at the rolling brown clouds.
THE WHITE DOVE
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I was staring down at a maw of blackness that had robbed me of my hope and future.
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And so to see a club like York City, once a byword for financial prudence and parsimony, to be staring over the abyss is a mortal blow.
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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Rabindranath Tagore
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She grew sick of staring at words by the third day, so she picked up Aedrial's mewling cat and sprawled across the bed, losing herself in thought.
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She stood staring into the middle distance.
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Later, staring up at the ceiling, you picture yourself being lifted up and crawling out of this painful skin, then walking around the room, free at last, a protoplasmic blob.
In the Valley of the Shadow
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Personal privacy is respected and staring is discouraged, although eye contact is not avoided.
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Often the reality of the connection of these landscapes is not fully realized, as many experience the transition between urban and rural settings within Mexico gradually; there is an intermediate stop along the way, or the transition is so harsh that instead of focused awe it begets mindless staring out of a car or bus window.
Landscapes Of Mexico, Landscapes Of The Self
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At the next table a beefy father was staring at me openly.
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I would catch him in his striped pajamas, staring vacantly at the wall, his thinning hair greasy from sleep.
Double or Nothing
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She seems nice if a bit vapid, staring at him, hanging on his every word, etc.
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But in a high-ceilinged courtroom last week, the man staring down at Kirkland had the ability to take it all away – and there was reason to think he might.
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And one of the things we were most looking forward to in the Dallas movie – because God knows it wasn't the prospect of staring at John Travolta's big smug moonface for two hours – was the inclusion of Jennifer Lopez as Sue Ellen Ewing.
JLo: Misunderstood
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Once there he sat on the bed with his knees clutched to his chest, his eyes staring.
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Seated at the table, Jose uplifted his head from the newspaper to see River's sister staring at him with an interrogating glare in her eyes.
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He was staring into the mirror above him.
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‘Promise me you'll at least hear me out before you decide that you don't believe me,’ I said quietly, staring into the red-hot flames of the fire.
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There was a huge pool of blood around her head and her eyes were staring.
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Before Biro told me about his research into "La Bella Principessa," and what he described as startling findings, he shared with me the story of how he became the world's first authenticator of art works through fingerprinting-a story that began, curiously enough, with the very paintings I was staring at.
GoodShit
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The month after the startling triumph of a brainy presidential candidate, with the economy tanking and Texas staring at a $9 billion budget shortfall, our piffler-in-chief, Gov.
The Texas Observer: In the Current Issue
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That night trip also yielded a highland tinamou, two Virginia opossums and - after half an hour spent staring at a yellow eye in a distant tree - what turned out to be a potoo.
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Their worships, as he called them, were about a score of fusty crack-ropes and gallow-clappers, or rather more, all posted before a bar, and staring at each other like so many dead pigs.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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He hissed a playful hiss, the guard on the left staring with pleasure.
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I'm staring at a neat cubical wombat dropping, perched on the side of the path.
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Whenever the ball is up at the other end of the pitch, you should consolidate this position by standing stock still and staring into space, with a vacant, slightly gormless expression.
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He knew, as he sat with clenched hands and staring eyes, that chiefly he was longing for a woman -- a woman whose eyes and lips and sunny hair haunted him after months of forgetfulness, and whose face smiled at him luringly, now, from out the leaping flashes of fire -- tempting him, calling him over a thousand miles of space.
Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest mounted Police
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On the top of the page was a photogravure of a beautiful woman, tall, with a mass of curly black hair and thick dark eyebrows, standing straight-backed in a white dress, staring out of the page in a way that reminded Ruby of Mama.
DIAMOND RUBY
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There was a certain electrical frequency on a plane that usually prevented her from getting any meaningful rest and left her staring goggle-eyed at the white light of the in-flight movie while the rest of the cabin plunged into darkness.
